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Wash. teen: 'If you're reading this, I'm either missing or dead'

A Washington family is desperate after their teenage daughter vanished from their home two weeks ago. Adding to their fears is a journal entry in which Anji Dean wrote "if you're reading this, I'm either missing or dead.'
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USA Today Network
KGW (Portland, Ore.)
7:06 a.m. EDT July 10, 2014

Anji Dean, 17, has been missing since June 23. Her family released this flier.(Photo: Help Find Anji Facebook page)

Their story is now getting national attention. CNN's Nancy Grace interviewed Anji's mother Lynda Jorgensen on Monday.

"We have no idea where she is or who she's with," she said. "She can't be doing this on her own, so we're really, really afraid for her."

Jorgensen said, in the months before Anji vanished, she'd made comments to teachers and counselors that she was in something that she couldn't get out of.

Also, on the day she vanished, she texted her boyfriend saying she'd gotten into something bad and that someone was threatening to kill him and her family.

Then, just hours before Anji vanished, a neighbor said she saw her getting out of an older blue Volvo that was filled with people. She said the driver was a black man, about 25 to 35 years old, with a goatee.

The 17-year-old left her home near 192nd in Camas between 9 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. on June 23.

"It scares the bejesus out of me because she didn't just run off on her own," Jorgensen said.

There were more red flags in this case. Anji left behind her wallet, bank cards, her glasses and clothes.

"She only took what she was wearing, which was black running tights, a white racer-back tank top and white Nike shoes," her mom said.

Authorities also discovered a cellphone that Anji's parents didn't know she had. They are analyzing it for clues.

Anji used to be a cheerleader. She also volunteered as an Explorer Scout for the Clark County Sheriff's Department. Now that same department is investigating her disappearance. If you know anything about the case you are urged to contact Detective Scott Kirgiss at 360-397-2028.